January 28, 2015

Enrique Pretel, Reuters

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Cuba will not accept any interference in its internal affairs in talks with the United States, President Raul Castro said on Wednesday, warning that meddling would make a diplomatic thawing between the two countries meaningless.

Castro urged U.S. President Barack Obama to use executive powers to ease a decades-long embargo, saying the U.S. leader could extend measures to soften the embargo, like those announced for telecoms, to the rest of the Cuban economy.

"Everything appears to indicate that the aim is to foment an artificial political opposition via economic, political and communicational means," Castro told a summit in Costa Rica...